Laurens Samson
Laurens Samson leads a development team at the City of Amsterdam that guides the implementation of LLMs across municipal departments while benchmarking Dutch-speaking language models on metrics such as bias, truthfulness, and sustainability to ensure responsible and ethical use.
In parallel, he is pursuing a PhD in Safety in Multimodal Large Language Models at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on safety in multimodal generative models.
Session
The City of Amsterdam is researching the responsible adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) by evaluating their performance, environmental impact, and alignment with human values. In this talk, we will share how we develop tailored benchmarks and a dedicated assessment platform to raise awareness and guide responsible implementation.